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Steil, Toni L. – 1985
A study was devised, using 20 undergraduate students chosen at random from an introductory psychology course, to measure the teaching effectiveness of two computer tutorials oriented to the spreadsheet portion of Appleworks. The first tutorial provided a data disk with pre-entered data for the user to manipulate, but no error correction…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Strategies, Higher Education
McGee, Glenn William – 1986
Although technological innovations have been widely adopted in elementary schools, efforts to implement these have generally not been successful. Past research on innovation has largely ignored the social context in which implementation occurs. This research examines how the implementation of the microcomputer is affected by the traditional social…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Analysis of Variance, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
Allen, David F.; Fry, Robert E. – 1986
This study determined the effects of two data collection techniques on response rate, response bias, response validity and respondent evaluation. Administration of a computer survey was compared to a machine readable paper survey. Cover letters were sent to 249 college sophomores who were randomly selected and proportionally stratified by intended…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection
Crane, Valerie – 1985
Research was conducted to examine student response to the fall 1984 Annenberg/CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) telecourse experience and to determine factors that influenced students' decisions to take and/or drop the course, how they used the materials available to them, how effective they found these materials to be, and how this course…
Descriptors: Diaries, Distance Education, Educational Television, Higher Education

Jackson, A.; And Others – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1986
Presents results from an exhaustive survey of Hertfordshire (England) primary schools which provides detailed information on microcomputer provision, classroom use, and headteachers' and teachers' aims and attitudes. An analysis of factors that influence microcomputer use is included. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Computer Software, Educational Change, Educational Objectives

Louie, Steven; And Others – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1986
Describes a study in which 46 high socioeconomic status elementary and secondary children were exposed to Logo and Bank Street Writer at a computer camp. After exposure, children 12 and under minimally shifted toward an internal locus of control as measured by the Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Item Analysis